Most Popular Books by Pam Pollack

Can a computer predict the future? Mystery e-mail with a message? Fi is a Web whiz, but when she starts getting weird e-mails from an unknown person, even she can't figure out what's going on. Even worse, the phantom messages take her to a Web site that can foresee the future-and the future doesn't look good for Fi and her family. She convinces Jack and Clu to do some detective work with her to find out who-or what-is behind the eerie e-mails.

Based on the television script by Sean Abley, and adapted by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso. So Weird is seen on the Disney Channel.

Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J. K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the first book in the saga. Rowling's true-life, rags-to-riches story is as compelling as the world of Hogwarts that she created. This biography details not only Rowling's life and her love of literature but the story behind the creation of a modern classic.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Examines the life and accomplishments of computer industry pioneer Steve Jobs, a founder of Apple Computer, Inc.

Born in the British West Indies and orphaned as a child, Alexander Hamilton made his way to the American Colonies and studied to become a lawyer. He joined a local militia during the American Revolution, rose to the rank of Major General, and became the chief aide to General George Washington. After the war, he became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He founded the Bank of New York and The New York Post newspaper. He served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and is also celebrated as a co-author of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays that are still used today to interpret the U.S. Constitution. The end of his life became a national scandal when he was shot and killed in a duel with then-Vice President Aaron Burr.

Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country. Though she was captured and executed for her beliefs, Joan of Arc became a Catholic saint and has since captured the world's imagination.

4 mysteries in 1! Calling all Doug fans and aspiring sleuths! Join in all the madcap, mysterious fun in the seemingly normal town of Bluffington as Doug and the gang unravel four new mysteries. Is a 5,000-year-old mummy out to get Doug''s friends? Is there a skate-snatching thief in Funkytown? Can Doug track down the Beets'' missing guitar player? The answers to these questions--and more--await Doug''s fans clever enough to follow the clues and sniff out the suspects.